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Daugherty says poverty and lack of education are the two main problems West Virginia women must overcome, unlike many of their more affluent sisters in other regions. More than half of the Appalachian women live in rural areas; most of the 29 per cent who work outside the home have only a tenth grade education and hold low-playing jobs. Three years ago, however, the United Mine Workers opened coal mining jobs to women, and these jobs pay more than most available to rural people. In Daugherty's view, the economic advantages of mining jobs for women outweigh their drawbacks...
...collective good. Despite the cataclysmic warnings of prime minister Barre--author of the basic French textbook on economics--that a victory for the left would be the beginning of the end of economic solvency in France, a recent poll appearing in the newsmagazine Le Point showed that 52 per cent of the electorate would vote for the leftist parties as against 44 per cent for the center-right. If the socialists and the communists can manage to establish some kind of ideological reconciliation for a few weeks until after the election, the left could well rule France for the first...
...stimulating economic expansion and industrialization for the past 20 years. Aided by a government that maintained its legitimacy only as long as the assembly lines were pouring out increasing numbers of cars, clothes and automatic dishwashers, the French economy has grown an average of 5 to 6 per cent annually. In 1973, the Hudson Institute predicted France would come to possess the most powerful economy in Western Europe...
...generation of increasing division of labor and greater economic productivity has transformed French society and the French alike. The focus of French life has shifted from the small village to the industrial metropolis; less than 10 per cent of the French are employed in agriculture. A five-fold increase in the number of working women signals an important shift in social mores. An extensive transportation network and greater radio and television penetration has forced provincial peasants to attempt to grapple with and understand the ideas and values of a technocratic society while their old traditions are repudiated by those ostensibly...
...very difficult to avoid. The costs of running the college are undeniably rising and any cutbacks in services would be resented by both students and University employees. The Faculty has managed to reduce the rate of tuition increase over the past few years--from over 12 per cent in 1975 to 7 per cent this year. But that 7 per cent increase brings the total cost of our education to $7500--a staggering amount, considering that one-quarter of all American families live on less than $7500 per year...